Cannot login to Docker account

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OS: Ubuntu 18.04 Server
Docker 18.3 CE

I am logged onto the server, from my Windows 10 laptop, using a PuTTY SSH session.

I don't have Docker on my local Windows laptop, so all the work is done on the remote server.

I can execute all Docker commands, on the remote server, using the terminal session.

However, when I try to save my image to the Docker hub, when I try to login, using:

docker login

I get the following error message:

error getting credentials - err: exit status 1, out: `GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files`

I did not get any error messages, when I created my image on the remote server.

I also do not see a .docker folder in the related home directory on the remote server. Any ideas?

I ran into a somewhat similar problem today while trying to run `docker login` from within a LXD/LXC container. That particular one I solved by copying `.docker/config.json` from my host over to my `$HOME/.docker/` directory within the LXD/LXC container, which I created manually. I'm currently trying to figure out another issue now, but wanted to ask if you had you tried doing this yet? — code_dredd, May 09 '18 at 22:07
No, I sort of gave up on Windows. I am getting a new laptop tomorrow, where I will be installing Ubuntu 18 as a dual boot. — EastsideDev, May 09 '18 at 22:12
I have opened up an issue for this here https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/1136. If they find a solution for this, I'll post it here. — thishandp7, Jun 21 '18 at 09:26

score 320 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 20 '19 at 13:05

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Edit 2019-04-07:

As this is the currently selected answer, I think people should try @Anish Varghese solution below first as it seems to be the easiest. You only need to install the gnupg2 and pass packages:

sudo apt install gnupg2 pass

If it doesn't work, then you can try my original solution here:

I had the same issue. bak2trak answer worked, but it saved credentials in clear text. Here's the solution if you want to keep them in a password store.

1) Download docker-credential-pass from https://github.com/docker/docker-credential-helpers/releases

2) tar -xvf docker-credential-pass.tar.gz

3) chmod u+x docker-credential-pass

4) mv docker-credential-pass /usr/bin

5) You will need to setup docker-credential-pass (following steps are based of https://github.com/docker/docker-credential-helpers/issues/102#issuecomment-388634452)

5.1) install gpg and pass (apt-get install gpg pass)

5.2) gpg --generate-key, enter your information. You should see something like this:

pub   rsa3072 2018-10-07 [SC] [expires: 2020-10-06]
      1234567890ABCDEF1234567890ABCDEF12345678

Copy the 123... line

5.3) pass init 1234567890ABCDEF1234567890ABCDEF12345678 (paste)

5.4) pass insert docker-credential-helpers/docker-pass-initialized-check and set the next password "pass is initialized" (without quotes).

5.5) pass show docker-credential-helpers/docker-pass-initialized-check. You should see pass is initialized.

5.6) docker-credential-pass list

6) create a ~/.docker/config.json with:

{
"credsStore": "pass"
}

7) docker login should now work

Note: If you get the error "pass store is uninitialized" in future run, run the below command (it will reload the pass store in memory):

pass show docker-credential-helpers/docker-pass-initialized-check

It will ask your password and it will initialize the pass store.

This is based off this discussion: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/25169#issuecomment-431129898

edited Sep 20 '19 at 13:05

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answered Oct 18 '18 at 19:27

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Didn't work for me. I get the message when I try docker login: "error getting credentials - err: exit status 1, out: `pass store is uninitialized" – GlacialSpoon Oct 29 '18 at 13:02
I started again after uninstalling pass and deleting the .password-store folder. Seems better now. Thanks. – GlacialSpoon Oct 29 '18 at 13:43
@GlacialSpoon: Before calling docker login, you can try to call pass show docker-credential-helpers/docker-pass-initialized-check, it wil lask you for your password and it should be initialized. – Jean-Philippe Jodoin Oct 30 '18 at 00:26
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@Jean-Phillipe Jodoin, thanks. It seems I have to call this periodically otherwise the login call fails to find the credentials. I read this might be something to do with the gpg cache expiring and the "pass show" wakes it up. When the server reboots I have to go back to the "pass insert" step before things work. It's not very convenient but it is allowing me to proceed. – GlacialSpoon Oct 30 '18 at 15:08
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Check the answer by Anish Varghese below, it seems to be the easiest and cleanest solution. – Aurelien Nov 22 '18 at 02:58
gpg: invalid option "--generate-key" – Calimo Mar 26 '19 at 13:25
Can you make it more clear which values we should be changing and which we shouldn't? – Joe Phillips Apr 06 '19 at 19:32
Due to the answer below, this one is actually harmful at this point. It will actually keep the one below from working properly. I feel like it would be a good netizenship move to instruct people to first try the answer below – Joe Phillips Apr 06 '19 at 21:26
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@JoePhillips: Agreed with you. Integrated his solution with citation. – Jean-Philippe Jodoin Apr 07 '19 at 12:01
I need to also follow this post: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/61064500-docker-credential-pass-does-not-work-at-all , because I was getting a StoreError('Credentials store docker-credential-pass exited with "exit status 2: gpg: decryption failed: No secret key".',) after doing a docker pull. Therefore, performing a export GPG_TTY=$(tty) – MFAL Feb 11 '20 at 12:38
Why did installing gnupg works? Without it I had to wait about 10s till login prompt, after everything seem to start instantaneously – Igor Tiulkanov Aug 15 '20 at 07:36

score 292 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 20 '20 at 13:30

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Install the following Packages in ubuntu fixed my issue

sudo apt install gnupg2 pass

edited Feb 20 '20 at 13:30

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answered Oct 18 '18 at 10:36

Anish Varghese

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didn't work for me, but also installing gpg worked: "sudo apt install gnupg2 pass gpg" – Jörg Beyer Dec 29 '18 at 17:27
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Worked for me on ubuntu 18.04 too. I only issued `sudo apt install pass`, the rest came as its dependencies – Álex Mar 21 '19 at 15:09
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Worked for me on Unbuntu 18.04. – Gill Bates Jul 13 '19 at 17:39
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What is the root of the problem? and why how ``gnupg2 pass`` will fix the problem? – Phoenix Dec 09 '19 at 04:55
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Worked for me at ubuntu 19.04 too – Ammad Khalid Mar 24 '20 at 22:11
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Worked for an edge device ARM64 on ubuntu 18.04 many thanks, the error was just: what is your password? then no answer at all... which was very difficult to troubleshoot. – Alsushi Jun 17 '20 at 08:11
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Thanks! Worked for me on Debian 10 – ASten Jun 17 '21 at 16:41
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This answer helped me, when I got `Error response from daemon: Get https://registry-1.docker.io/v2/: unauthorized: incorrect username or password`. Just for the records – stollr Jul 16 '21 at 14:20
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Worked for me on Linux mint 19.3. Thank you very much. – rEzA Feb 27 '22 at 10:24
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This is lovely and terrible. I don't have the proper words to express how I feel. This is MAGIC! – S.H. Mar 26 '23 at 15:40

bak2trak · Answer 3 · 2018-05-28T15:33:28.260

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I faced the same issue in ubuntu 18.08 and this finally worked for me.. as a temporary solution.

I had created this folder home/.docker/ as some solutions suggested me to create a file config.json and write default credentials in it i.e.

{
    "credsStore": "pass"
}

I deleted this file config.json.
Then renamed docker-credential-secretservice to something else so that it doesn't picks up this file.

sudo mv /usr/bin/docker-credential-secretservice /usr/bin/docker-credential-secretservice_x

and it worked!

edited May 28 '18 at 15:33

answered May 28 '18 at 15:28

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@Renrhaf First [docker](https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/login/#credentials-store) by default looks for "pass" where it searches in gnome key-chain and osx-keychain in OS-X . If it's not found then looks for `org.freedesktop.secrets`. Its not found for ubuntu 18 (some issues). After renaming it (docker-credential-secretservice) to something else then it falls back to create config file by itself, You can look in home/.docker folder one config.json file would have been created. – bak2trak May 29 '18 at 05:08
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I just encountered this issue and solved it via this method - kind of. I installed `docker-credential-secretservice` from GH, created a `~/.docker/config.json` with content as above then tried to log in. Got an error. Then deleted the `.docker` folder, `config.json` and the `/usr/bin/docker-credential-secretservice` executable and then ran `docker login` again with success – Andy Jul 06 '18 at 06:25
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To anyone having the same issue: Don't forget to **delete config.json** . I almost gave up on this, but it worked in the last moment, after I deleted config.json. – sr9yar Aug 13 '18 at 19:39
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For me, I uninstalled `docker-compose` and then ran your `sudo mv /usr/bin/docker-credential-secretservice /usr/bin/docker-credential-secretservice_x` rename, it worked. Does anyone know what `docker-credential-secretservice` is used for? – WSBT Sep 07 '18 at 21:14
docker credential store https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/login/#credentials-store – jhrabi Sep 19 '18 at 16:23
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This solution worked for me, but it saves credentials base 64 encoded. I posted below a solution which uses pass. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50151833/cannot-login-to-docker-account/52881198#52881198 – Jean-Philippe Jodoin Oct 18 '18 at 19:29
it works with 'mv /usr/bin/docker-credential-secretservice /usr/bin/docker-credential-secretservice_x' – Victor Nazarov Nov 13 '19 at 23:19
This solution worked for me in Linux mint 19.3. – Stan Jan 17 '21 at 03:47

score 16 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 07 '21 at 22:35

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This work for me in my Ubuntu 18:

docker logout
mv ~/.docker/config.json ~/.docker/config_old.json
docker login

answered Sep 07 '21 at 22:35

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working also on MacOS BigSur – pavle Mar 10 '22 at 15:54
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worked in ubuntu 22.04 – Laode Muhammad Al Fatih Jun 23 '22 at 01:33
Worked in Ubuntu 18.04 – Reuben Aug 15 '23 at 18:48

score 10 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 26 '21 at 15:20

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I just deleted the ~/.docker/config.json and try the login again. It works. A new file is created.

answered Mar 26 '21 at 15:20

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I tried everything else in this thread and the only thing that worked for me was this one. – ruby_newbie Jan 20 '22 at 20:43

score 9 · Answer 6 · answered May 23 '20 at 10:28

This may help too, at least it did in Ubuntu 20.04:

wget https://github.com/docker/docker-credential-helpers/releases/download/v0.6.3/docker-credential-secretservice-v0.6.3-amd64.tar.gz && tar -xf docker-credential-secretservice-v0.6.3-amd64.tar.gz && chmod +x docker-credential-secretservice && mv docker-credential-secretservice /usr/local/bin/

https://hackernoon.com/getting-rid-of-docker-plain-text-credentials-88309e07640d https://github.com/docker/docker-credential-helpers/releases

score 7 · Answer 7 · answered Jan 14 '20 at 13:11

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If apt install gnupg2 pass does not work for you, you can also install golang-docker-credential-helpers package

answered Jan 14 '20 at 13:11

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score 7 · Answer 8 · answered Feb 02 '21 at 16:47

I had this problem (headless Ubuntu 20, upgraded from 16,18) and none of the other answers worked for me. Finally, after reading some of the discussions posted here I found the problem was that the gnome-keyring was installed but not working properly. Since this was a headless, the correct answer was to remove gnome-keyring (since it was providing the org.freedesktop.secrets service) and then it worked perfectly.

sudo apt remove gnome-keyring golang-docker-credential-helpers

Thanks. Removing gnome-keyring was enough - removing golang-docker-credential-helpers would mean to remove docker-compose, too. — Michael2, Dec 04 '21 at 20:30

Mr Kashyap · Answer 9 · 2020-07-30T12:46:50.483

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For me the simplest solution was to create config.json file under .docker directory inside user home directory:

/home/.docker/config.json

Then i copied the content of this file from the server from where i was able to login to the docker hub.

{
        "auths": {
                "https://index.docker.io/v1/": {
                        "auth": "SOMEVALUE"
                }
        },
        "HttpHeaders": {
                "User-Agent": "Docker-Client/18.06.1-ce (linux)"
        }

}

Its a easy workaround, because it doesn't require you to install or update any package which we can't do easily on production servers.

edited Jul 30 '20 at 12:46

answered Aug 27 '19 at 06:56

Mr Kashyap

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Sadly, this is the only workaround that has worked for me... at least it's possible to use an access token instead of your account's pwd. – George Aristy Sep 21 '19 at 14:32
The path "~/home/.docker/config.json" seems so wrong. You probably meant "~/.docker/config.json" – BlakBat Jul 24 '20 at 15:56
Thanks for poinitng it out, upadated the path. – Mr Kashyap Jul 30 '20 at 12:47

score 5 · Answer 10 · answered Jul 21 '20 at 06:30

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Simple solution: just remove "credsStore": "secretservice" from ~/.docker/config.json

answered Jul 21 '20 at 06:30

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It is a dangerous solution since in this way the password is stored unencrypted – PenguinEngineer May 25 '21 at 13:48

score 5 · Answer 11 · answered Apr 17 '21 at 01:25

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The problem for me were solved by running the script with sudo!

sudo docker login -u YOU-USERNAME

answered Apr 17 '21 at 01:25

Aalejandro Martinez Rodriguez

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--ignore-depends=golang-docker-credential-helpers golang-docker-credential-helpers this should be run before this command to work – smrf Nov 24 '21 at 19:48

score 3 · Answer 12 · answered Mar 12 '19 at 13:31

For me docker push failed with

denied: requested access to the resource is denied

... so I wanted to docker login but got the following after entering credentials:

Remote error from secret service:
  org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod:
  No such interface 'org.freedesktop.Secret.Collection' on object at path
  /org/freedesktop/secrets/collection/login

Error saving credentials:
  error storing credentials - err: exit status 1, out:
  No such interface 'org.freedesktop.Secret.Collection' on object at path
  /org/freedesktop/secrets/collection/login

Luckily, I had another machine available on which I was able to log in without any changes to the system. I copied the content of ~/.docker/config.json...

{
        "auths": {
                "https://index.docker.io/v1/": {
                        "auth": "<some-hash-value>"
                }
        },
        "HttpHeaders": {
                "User-Agent": "Docker-Client/18.09.2 (linux)"
        }
}

... to the other machine and docker push worked.

score 2 · Answer 13 · answered May 06 '21 at 09:13

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Just Try it: sudo apt install golang-docker-credential-helpers

answered May 06 '21 at 09:13

Shamil Qurbonov

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One earlier answer already mentions this installation. What information does your answer add ? – XouDo May 06 '21 at 10:41

score 1 · Answer 14 · answered Mar 03 '20 at 10:44

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Well you already read solution but the fact is gnupg2 is now not installed by default in Ubuntu 18+, That is the reason sometime after apt upgrade , things behave a little differently.

answered Mar 03 '20 at 10:44

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v0id · Answer 15 · 2020-03-26T17:49:13.807

Following the answer I had the several issues.

The key generation was stuck at entropy (step 5.2).

Fortunately, the fix is easy and you only need to install the package rng-tools: https://stackoverflow.com/a/32941065

On pass init <key> (step 5.3) the error gpg: decryption failed: No secret key showed up.

In fact this issue is due to the secret key being restricted to root privileges.

I changed the ownership of the .gnupg .password-store folders in my user's homedir.

Then reloaded the dirmngr to avoid "unsafe ownership" warning:

gpgconf --kill dirmngr

If you don't want to do all that you can run all commands of the answer as root/sudo.

score 1 · Answer 16 · answered Jan 09 '23 at 11:55

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To me Ubuntu 20.04

sudo apt install golang-docker-credential-helpers

It is working

answered Jan 09 '23 at 11:55

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score 0 · Answer 17 · answered Jan 08 '21 at 15:45

You don't have a credentials store. Try using Gnome Keyring; depending on your linux installation, it might already be installed. You can use GK to securely store auth data in Chrom{e,ium} (and probably more) too. Getting back to Docker, you'd need a .docker/config.json like:

{
    "credsStore": "secretservice"
}

Then, make sure you've configured PAM to unlock the keyring: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME/Keyring#PAM_method

score 0 · Answer 18 · answered May 17 '22 at 20:19

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sudo apt install gnupg2 pass wasn't working for me and I was using docker without adding sudo in front everytime. So I added sudo docker login -u <myusername> it prompted me the pass and this time it worked since I used sudo for my docker.

answered May 17 '22 at 20:19

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score 0 · Answer 19 · edited Jul 31 '23 at 08:50

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If you somehow still stuck in this issue, try:

sudo docker login <site>

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answered Jul 25 '23 at 14:04

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score -1 · Answer 20 · answered Sep 07 '22 at 16:05

For me, uninstalling the package docker-compose and manually installing a more recent version solved the issue.

Uninstalled docker-compose :

sudo apt remove docker-compose

Installed more recent version as indicated here https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-docker-compose-on-debian-10 :

sudo curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.29.2/docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

score -2 · Answer 21 · answered Apr 16 '20 at 08:34

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creating the following solved it for me:

AWS_CONFIG=$AWS_DIR/config
AWS_CREDENTIALS=$AWS_DIR/credentials
mkdir -p $AWS_DIR

answered Apr 16 '20 at 08:34

Danletski

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score -2 · Answer 22 · answered Apr 15 '21 at 18:37

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In my case, this error was resolved after giving read and write access to all users to the file /var/run/docker.sock:

sudo chmod 666 /var/run/docker.sock

answered Apr 15 '21 at 18:37

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score -3 · Answer 23 · answered Sep 25 '19 at 10:55

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Install the following Packages in ubuntu

sudo apt install gnupg2 pass

This is worked for me.

answered Sep 25 '19 at 10:55

Virani Chetan

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This doesn't provide any addition to earlier answers with the same or better content. – Kalle Richter Dec 29 '19 at 12:57

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